The trouble is, the current surge of adolescents identifying as trans happens in a world saturated with gender stereotypes. The kids and the people round them have drunk these stereotypes in so they sit under the level of awareness. In Lisa Littman’s research on detransitioners, at the time of their transition, a third had had others interpret them as ‘trans’. This is serious shit now, when it leads to regret for irreversible body modification from hormones and surgery.
Transgender regret: detransitioners go poor care while transitioning
The trouble is, the current surge of adolescents identifying as trans happens in a world saturated with gender stereotypes. The kids and the people round them have drunk these stereotypes in so they sit under the level of awareness. In Lisa Littman’s research on detransitioners, at the time of their transition, a third had had others interpret them as ‘trans’. This is serious shit now, when it leads to regret for irreversible body modification from hormones and surgery.
Transgender regret: detransitioners go poor care while transitioning
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/962270#vp_3